Scaling Up: A Workshop to Explore Building Systemic Communication Capacity for Next-Generation Scientists

摘要科学传播能力是STEM研究生的一项重要技能，但在全国范围内并不是STEM研究生教育的典型部分。在提供这种科学传播培训的机构中，教学方法变化很大，反映出缺乏标准和评估指标。本次研讨会将1)整理全国STEM研究生的科学传播培训；(2)从课程、方法和评估等方面确定科学传播培训的高效实践；(3)制定路线图，为大学管理者和资助机构在全国范围内实施和扩大科学传播培训提供具体建议。研讨会将包括IGERT项目负责人、科学传播培训师、科学传播研究人员以及对STEM研究生传播培训有高度兴趣的国家机构和组织的个人。研讨会的成果将包括一份给国家科学基金会的白皮书，该白皮书确定了科学传播培训的最佳实践，并为国家扩大有效实践制定了路线图；在同行评议的文献和其他媒体上发表的文章；以及有能力促进研究生教育变革的组织（如美国国家科学基金会、研究生院理事会和美国科学促进会）官员的简报。

Proposal title: Scaling Up: A Workshop to Explore Building Systemic Communication Capacity for Next-Generation ScientistsProposal ID: 1255633PI: Nancy BaronAbstractScience communications proficiency is an important skill for STEM graduate students but is not a typical part of STEM graduate education nationally. At the institutions that do offer such science communications training, instructional approaches are highly variable, reflecting an absence of standards and evaluation metrics. The workshop will 1) inventory science communications training for STEM graduate students nationally, (2) identify high effective practices in science communications training with attention to curriculum, approaches, and evaluation, and (3) define a roadmap that gives concrete recommendations to university administrators and funding agencies for national implementation and scale-up of science communications training. The workshop will involve IGERT PIs, science communications trainers, science communications researchers, and individuals from national agencies and organizations with a high interest in STEM graduate student communications training. Products of the workshop will include a white paper to NSF that identifies best practices for science communications training and specifies a roadmap for national scale-up of effective practices; publications in the peer-reviewed literature and other media; and briefings of officials at organizations with capacity to foster changes in graduate education (e.g., NSF, Council of Graduate Schools, and AAAS).